“His career’s not over,” he said. “I’d just like to—why he’s saying that, I don’t know. Maybe he thinks that that sells. Maybe he’s taking the Donald Trump approach and trying to sell himself. I don’t know.”

Ainge did, however, say James at least belonged in the greatest of all-time conversation.

“Obviously LeBron is in every conversation with who is the greatest player of all time,” he said. “But time will tell. I don’t know if anyone knows who the greatest of all time is, because the years are so different.”

James reignited the debate with his comments seen in a snippet on the UNINTERRUPTED Twitter handle.

“That moment right there made me the greatest player of all-time, that’s what I felt,” he said, referring to winning a championship with the Cavaliers. “I was super, super ecstatic to win one for Cleveland because of the 52-year drought. The first wave of emotion was everyone saw me crying. That was all for 52 years of everything in sports going on in Cleveland. And then after I stopped, I was like, ‘That one right there made you the greatest player of all-time.’”

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